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.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,801, dated June 22, 1897. Application filed February 2'7, 1897. Serial No. 625,360. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ARVID WnLILs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yale, in the county of St. Clair and State ot Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Playin g-Cards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a gaine adapted to be played by cards; and the object of the invention is to provide a game which shall be interesting, amusing, and instructive to both young and old.

lVith this object in View the invention consists of a plurality of cards suitably inscribed and played in the mannerhereinafter speciiied.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a view of one of the playing-cards denoting,` one of the months of the spring season, of which there are three for each month of that season, making a total of nine. Fig. 2 is a view of one of the playing-cards denoting one of the months ofthe summer season, of which there are three for each month of the season, making a total of nine. Fig. 3 is a View of one of the playing-cards denoting one of the months of the autumn season, of which there are three for each month of that season, making a total of nine. Fig. 4E is a View of one of the playingcards denoting one of the months of the winter season, of which there are three for each month of that season, making a total of nine. Fig. 5 is a view of one of the burlesque cards, of which there are four, one for each season of the year. Fig. G is aview of a sun-card, of which there are four, one for each season of the year. Fig. 7 is a View of one of the moonfcards, of which there are twelve, one for each month of the year, and Fig. 8 is a view of the leap-year7 card.

The game consists of fifty-seven cards, iiftythree bein g playing-cards and four burlesque The four seasons-spring, summer,

cards of each month of that season, making in all thirty-six cards. Each month has one moon-card, making twelve cards. Each season has a sun-card, making four cards, and one leap-year card, together with the four burlesque cards, make a pack of fifty-seven cards.

The game consists of twenty-nine points, which are represented by the following cards: The leap-year card counts twelve points, the suncard four points, the moon-card two points, and the Jthree months of a season one point.

To play a game, the cards are to be thoroughly mixed by one of the players and dealt out one card at a time to each player, dealing from right to left until each player has six cards. The player next to the left of the one who deals shall have first choice of season, and so on from right to left until all the seasons are chosen. The player who chooses first shall play a card of his season, and the next a card of his, and so on, each player to lay his card down in front of himself, so as not to mix the seasons.

The cards are to be dealt twice, six cards to each player at each deal, or the whole pack of iiftythree playingcards will be dealt in one deal, so that each player will have thirteen cards, leaving the leap-year card, the highest trump-card in the pack, which is placed in the harvest-bin.

A full season consists of three months of that season, together with a moon-card. The

player shall try to iill his seasons as quickly as possible, and as soon as he has the season full he can turn the cards over face down and call three points. A player can play a moon-card first in his season ii' he have one and thereby save his season from being taken with a mooncard, inasmuch as a player having a moon-card can play it on his neighbors unfilled season and take it, and the season so taken shall count two points to the player who takes it. When a player ,is unable to play on his own season, he should play in the center of the table to what I will term the 1 ICO play it in the harvest-bin and take it, together with all uniilled seasons on the board,

' and it Will count tWelve points plus the nnn1- ber of points in the harvest-bin and the four unfilled seasons.

The player first making twenty-nine points goes out, and so with the second and third. The player getting left gets a card With some comical inscription thereon-such, for instance, as Spring calf. The next game played the one Who gets left takes a card With some suitable inscripton--such7 for in.- stanee, as The last sninlners birds nest. The next gaine the one Who gets left takes a card inscribed The goose,7 and the one left in the fourth galne is to be presented with a 

